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That's the point of the other kind of progress: the attempt to make it so that more than just the wealthy will benefit from these gains. There's a lot of wins and losses in that regard, and right now we seem to be on the downswing. Much of the third world is being manipulated by corporate interests, though it's not as bad as with United Fruit in South America. Even the redistributionist policies of Hugo Chavez have been taking from the middle class to benefit the rich. In America, I believe that upward mobility will essentially be gone once the capital gains tax is abolished, which is likely to happen in the next ten years.